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Now the ”Dinitz Theorem,” Was a Simple- Sounding Open Question Regarding the Coloring of a Graph Or Array, Combining Ele- Ments of Combinatorics and Graph Theory THE DINITZ PROBLEM ALDEN MATHIEU 1. Introduction The so-called "Dinitz conjecture," now the "Dinitz theorem," was a simple- sounding open question regarding the coloring of a graph or array, combining ele- ments of combinatorics and graph theory. Proposed by Jeff Dinitz in the late Seven- ties, it wasn't solved until the early Nineties, when Fred Galvin produced a simple solution. We follow David Glynn's presentation of the material from [1, Chap- ter 36], which combines elements we recognize from earlier talks, including Daniel Matthews' discussion of the graph theory chapter "Five-coloring plane graphs" and Alden Mathieu's combinatorics presentation on "Three famous theorems on finite sets." 2. Dinitz's Problem Question. Given n2 cells arranged in an (n × n) square array, let (i; j) denote the cell in row i and column j. For each cell (i; j), we have a color set of C(i; j) of n colors. Is it always possible to color the whole array, by selecting colors from C(i; j) for each cell, such that the colors in each row and column are distinct? It is easiest to visualize this array coloring as a Latin square. Definition 2.1. A Latin square is an (n × n) array, where the n2 cells are filled with the numbers f1; 2; :::; ng such that each number appears exactly once in each row and column. For an (n × n) Latin square with a choice of the same n colors for each cell, this is always possible. Consider the Latin square below. We label the first row arbitrarily with distinct colors for each cell, and permute the row as we progress down the square. Coloring a Latin square in this way is identical to solving a sudoku puzzle. 1 2 3 3 1 2 2 3 1 Table 1. A Latin square with distinct coloring in each row and column. Question. What if the total set of colors has more than n colors? That is, is it still possible to color the (n × n) array if C := [i;jC(i; j) > n but each cell (i; j) has a set of n colors, C(i; j), to choose from? Date: 14 November 2018. 1 2 ALDEN MATHIEU Even with the simplest possible example, with a (2 × 2) Latin square with 3 colors to choose from, this is not always possible: f1,2g f2,3g ! 1 2 f1,3g f2,3g 3 3 Table 2. The (2 × 2) array can fail to be distinctly colored with an awkward choice of just 3 colors. To prove the Dinitz conjecture, we will restate it in terms of graph theory to make our proof easier. 3. Graph Theory 3.1. Background. Definition 3.1. A simple graph G = (V; E) is an undirected graph without loops or multiple edges: that is, a simple graph is a collection of V vertices which are connected by E edges such that any pair of vertices in G is connected by at most 1 edge. Definition 3.2. A bipartite graph G = (V; E) is a graph whose vertex set V can be partitioned into two disjoint sets X; Y such that every edge has one endpoint in X and the other endpoint in Y . Definition 3.3. A coloring (specifically, a vertex coloring) of a graph is an assign- ment of a color to each vertex from a given set of colors, such that it is proper (no pair of adjacent vertices share the same color). Bipartite graphs can be equivalently defined as those graphs which are 2-colorable. Definition 3.4. The chromatic number of a graph G, denoted χ(G), is the smallest number of colors that one can assign to the vertices such that the coloring is proper. The chromatic number of a graph can also be visualized as the minimal number of independent sets which partition the set of vertices V . Definition 3.5. The list coloring is a coloring of the vertices v in V , denoted L(v), where the list of allowed colors for each vertex is a subset of all colors in the graph. Hence, the list chromatic number of a graph G, denoted χl(G), is the minimum k such that if every color set C(v) has size k for all vertices v in V , then a list coloring exists. We note that χ(G) ≤ χl(G) always, since an ordinary coloring is a special case of list coloring. 3.2. Reframing the Dinitz problem. We reframe the Dinitz problem by assign- ing a vertex to each cell of our (n × n) array, changing our Latin square problem to 2 a graph theory problem. Our graph, Sn, has n vertices, with two vertices adjacent if and only if they are in the same row or column (see Figure 1). Since we have n2 vertices and any n cells in a row are pairwise adjacent, and recalling our Latin square (Table 1), we clearly require at least n colors. Since we have shown the existence of Latin squares, we infer that χ(Sn) = n. Given that this is the "Dinitz theorem," and not the "disproven Dinitz conjec- ture," we proceed to prove the restated Dinitz problem: Theorem 3.6 (Dinitz theorem). χl(Sn) = n; 8n THE DINITZ PROBLEM 3 (a) A (3 × 3) array (b) The associated graph S3 Figure 1. Associating a graph to an array Remarks 3.7. It is not true that χ(G) = χl(G) for any graph G. Consider the exercise given in the book and depicted below (Figure 2). As a complete bipartite graph, K2;4 has a chromatic number of 2 but is demonstrated not to be 2-list- colorable; χl(K2;4) = 3. Figure 2. K2;4 is 3-list-colorable A 1979 paper by Erd}os,Rubin and Taylor [2] demonstrates that there is no bound on how much the list chromatic number of a graph can exceed the chromatic number of the graph as the list of colors grows. To prove the Dinitz theorem, we will need two results and a few further graph theory concepts. Definition 3.8. An induced subgraph GA is the subgraph of G which has the set of vertices A ⊆ V and the set of all edges of G which connect the vertices in A. GA is the subgraph induced by A. 4 ALDEN MATHIEU −! Definition 3.9. A directed graph, denoted G(V; E), is a graph on which each edge has an orientation or direction. The notation u ! v denotes the directed edge starting at vertex u and ending at vertex v. Definition 3.10. For a vertex v in a graph, we denote the degree of v by d(v). The degree of v is the number of edges which connect to v. We therefore define the outdegree d+(v) as the number of directed edges which start at v. Similiarly, the indegree d−(v) is the number of directed edges which end at v. We also have that d(v) = d+(v) + d−(v). Definition 3.11. A set of vertices S in a graph are independent if they are pairwise non-adjacent; that is, for every pair of vertices of S, there is no connecting edge between them. −! Definition 3.12 (Kernel). Let G = (V; E) be a directed graph. A kernel K ⊆ V is a subset of the vertices such that i) K is independent in G ii) for every vertex u 2 V nK, there is a vertex v 2 K such that u ! v. That is, all vertices not in K have an edge directed into K. We now can state the first result. 4. First Result −! Lemma 4.1. Let G(V; E) be a directed graph, and suppose for all v 2 V there is a color set C(v) such that jC(v)j ≥ d+(v) + 1. Then, if every induced subgraph of −! G has a kernel, then G has a list coloring with C(v) as the color set. Proof. We use induction on the number of vertices. If there is only one vertex, the lemma is trivial; we consider only jV j > 1. Let c be a color, c 2 C = [v2V C(v). Define A(c) := fv 2 V : c 2 C(v)g, the set of vertices with color c in the restricted list C(v). Therefore GA(c) has a kernel: K(c). Because all the vertices in K(c) are independent (by definition 3.12(i)), we are able to color all the vertices in K(c) with the color c. We then delete K(c) from G and delete c from C. Now we let G0 be the induced subgraph on V nK(c) and let the reduced C0(v) = C(v)nfcg. For all vertices u in A(c)nK(c), we have reduced the outdegree by at least 1 (by definition 3.12(ii)), so the condition jC0(u)j ≥ d+(u) + 1 still holds. Similarly, the condition holds for vertices outside A(c) since the sets C(v) were not −! changed. Thus, our new graph G0 has a list coloring. By adding our removed colors back in, we can see that by induction we get a list −! coloring for G. 4.1. Strategy. We now see that we need to find an orientation of edges of our associated graph Sn such that i) d+(v) ≤ n − 1, for all vertices v ii) every induced subgraph has a kernel Hence, for our second result, we require concepts which should be somewhat familiar from an earlier presentation on Hall's marriage theorem.
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